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PRESTON, GEORGE HENRY, eldest son of George Preston (KS 1805, qv); b. 2 May 1823; adm. 28 Jun 1830; KS 1837; Capt. of the School 1841; left 1841; St. Bees Coll.; ordained deacon 1846, priest 1847 (both Chester); Curate, St. Paul’s, Stalybridge, Cheshire 1846-8; held other curacies; Chaplain at Rio de Janeiro 1864-78; living Madron, Cornwall, in 1881 (1881 Census); m. 1st, Sarah Coulter; m. 2nd, ---; d. 8 Jun 1903.

PRESTON, GEORGE, son of George Preston (adm. 1769, qv); b. ; in school list 1801; KS (aged 14) 1805; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1809, adm. pens. 13 May 1809, scholar 1810; BA 1813; MA 1821; ordained; Curate, Shotley and Harkstead, Suffolk 1815; an Usher at the School Oct 1818 – Jun 1826, Under Master from Jun 1826; Chaplain to Foundling Hospital 1820; Vicar of Christ Church, Newgate Street, London, from 11 Dec 1829; m. 19 Aug 1822 Emma, dau. of Richard Van Heythuysen, John Street, Bedford Row, London, solicitor; d. 6 Sep 1841, aged 50. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey (memorial tablet in Dark Cloister).

PRESTON, ISAAC, son of Isaac Preston, Beeston St. Lawrence, Norfolk, and his second wife Hester, dau. of Jonathan Pettingall, Hempnall, Norfolk; bapt. Beeston St. Lawrence, Norfolk 21 Jul 1754 (IGI); in school lists 1764; KS (aged 13) 1767; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1772, but went to Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Jul 1772; BA 1776; MA 1779; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Jun 1769, called to bar 15 Jun 1781; Recorder of King’s Lynn; d. unm. 1 May 1796.

PRICE, DAVID, son of William Price, Flint; b.; adm.; KS 1685; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1688, adm. pens. 26 Jun 1688, aged 19, scholar 12 Apr 1689; BA 1691/2; Usher at Felsted School, Essex, from 1693; ordained; Rector of Hatfield Peverel, Essex 1702; d. 1731.

PRICE, EDWARD, son of John Price, Bodfari, Flintshirte; b.; adm.; KS in 1619; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1621, matr. 24 Jul 1624, aged 19, Westminster Student to c. 1639; BA 1625; MA 1628 (incorp. Cambridge 1639); ordained; Vicar of Carleton in Craven, Yorkshire, from 16 Apr 1638; also Vicar of Featherstone, Yorks., in 1638; m.; d. 1674.

PRICE, EDWARD, son of Rev. Hugh Price, St. Peter’s Bailey, Oxford; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) 1715; elected to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 1 Jun 1719, aged 19, but not adm. as Westminster Student.

PRICE, HOWELL, son of David Price, Breconshire; b.; adm.; KS 1686; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1689, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1689, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1690; 3rd in “ordo” 1692/3; BA 1692/3; MA 1696; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1695, Major Fellow 3 Jul 1696 – c. 1699.

PRICE, JOHN; b. London 1600; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1617, Westminster Student to 1622, but did not matr.; became a Roman Catholic; accompanied Hon. Thomas Howard to Italy, where he obtained LLD degree; went to Ireland with Lord Strafford and bacame a friend of Archbishop Ussher; edited the Apologia of Apuleius, published at Paris in 1635; made excerpts from the Greek MSS in the Imperial Library at Vienna 1637; wrote pamphlets in royalist interest during Civil War, for which he was briefly imprisoned; went abroad; settled at Florence c. 1652 as Keeper of Medals to Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany; Professor of Greek, Univ. Pisa; moved to Rome, where he found a patron in Cardinal Francesco Barberini; a fine scholar, and, according to Wood, “the greatest critic of his time” (Athenae Oxonienses, iii, 1105); author of two books on Apuleius, published 1635 and 1650, and other works; d. at Rome c. 1676. DNB.

PRICE, JOHN, son of Rev. Thomas Price, Rector of Dartford, Kent, and Lettice --- (IGI); bapt. Dartford, Kent 28 Sep 1692; adm.; BB 1707; QS (aged 15) 1708; left 1712; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 5 May 1712, aged 18, Newman Scholar 6 Apr 1714, matr. 1714; BA 1715/6; MA 1719; ordained deacon 1714, priest 1716 (both Rochester); Head Master, King’s Sch., Rochester 1720/1 (or 1729 ?) – 39 (?); Vicar of Northfleet, Kent 1720-1; Rector of Orlestone, Kent, from 1728; Vicar of Halling, Kent, from 1729; Vicar of Chalk, Kent, from 1740; d. 11 Sep 1751.

PRICE, JOHN, brother of William Price (left 1769, qv); b.; in school list Jun 1764; KS (aged 14) 1769; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 Apr 1775.